Whenever people breakdown how much the average person spends a day/year/lifetime on coffee, I’m astounded. It’s a classic couple bucks here, couple bucks there situation that adds up to a stupid amount of money.

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Anthony Bourdain is the man. I think that’s something we can all agree on. The celebrity chef has made a career out of traveling, cooking, writing, and meeting interesting people. We should all be so lucky.

In a sitdown with Business Insider, Anthony Bourdain and Danny Bowien of Mission Chinese were asked about Yelp! reviews and reviewers. Tony didn’t hold back. He unleashed his disdain for the faceless commenters and reviewers of the world. Trashing the ‘elite Yelp users’ for destroying the hard work of chefs and employees who spend a year getting a restaurant ready to open only to see all of that hard work unraveled in an instant.

‘Find a chef who has anything nice to say about Yelpers, it’s a contradiction’…Is it? Are there really no chefs at all who enjoy seeing constructive criticism roll in? I have to imagine that the disdain and/or love of Yelp is a sliding scale that changes as the stakes increase. If this is a restaurant in TriBeCa which took 7-figure infusions of cash to get off the ground I imagine you’re going to want to track down every shitty Yelp! reviewer because the stakes are so high. But I doubt this is going to be the case in a small town where good reviews can have just as much meaningful impact as bad ones.

I was considering whether or not to mention this because the restaurant actually made good and refunded me and the two dudes I was dining with for the meal. But, after receiving 3 more bills for hospitalization over the past year totaling around $1500 for my trip to the emergency room after throwing up blood with food poisoning, I’d just like to say that the restaurant I mentioned in the first sentence of the second paragraph above is still on my shit list. It’s a family-style restaurant, and last December I got food poisoning there along with the two other dudes I was eating with. I was the only one hospitalized and even with great health insurance, I kept receiving ridiculous bills in the mail from the hospital. Mission Chinese refunded our meal, which was nice of them, but I’d have much preferred to not be hospitalized for throwing up blood. They offered to host me at the restaurant again but I can’t really see myself ever eating at a place that caused me and 2 friends to get so sick. They also asked me to delete my disparaging tweets about the experience, which I was sending from the E.R., after they refunded the meal. I did, and I regret doing so now…Think I should put this in a Yelp! review?

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Yes, 74-year-old Mick Jagger did just have his eighth child with 31-year-old ballerina Melanie Hamrick last year. Your memory isn’t failing you. That mostly only happens when you get old. Like Mick Jagger.

What doesn’t happen when you or I get old is that we still have the kind of energy and charisma that allows us to still somehow hold the interest of a 23-year-old.

Which is exactly what numerous reports have said about the legendary Rolling Stones frontman over the past week.

Jagger’s rumoured new girlfriend is film producer Noor Alfallah, who attended the UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television, and for those of you who are bad at math, is more than 50 years younger than the Mickster.

According to Metro…

It’s reported they met properly at a private flat in the French capital after being introduced by mutual friend, producer Brett Ratner. After hitting it off, they’re said to have been wining and dining their way around the city ever since.

Where does this guy still find the energy after all those hard-partying years? He’s a great-grandfather, for heaven’s sake. I can barely get out of bed in the morning let alone travel around doing concerts and everything else he does.

Despite having only been on a couple of dates, she’s already played the doting girlfriend routine, supporting Mick at the Stones’ gig at Paris’ U Arena earlier this month.

And the following day, Jagger apparently returned the favour by turning up at her hotel to pay her a visit.

Oh, by the way, like I mentioned in the headline, Mick’s kids, who have a combined five different mothers (he’s only been married once), are Karis Jagger and Jade Jagger, both 46, 33-year-old Elizabeth, 32-year-old James, 25-year-old Georgia (probably the most famous of the bunch), 19-year-old Gabriel, 18-year-old Lucas and Deveraux, who turns one on December 8th.

I guess Mick Jagger is and always will be the official poster boy for “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.”

Samuel Adams

Samuel Adams has debuted their 2017 Utopias. Technically, with an ABV os 28% the Sam Adamas Utopias is a barleywine. Nationwide, there will be 13,000 bottles of the 2017 Sam Adams Utopias hitting shelves with 68 wooden casks being distributed.

What makes this $200/bottle beer so special? Oh, did I not mention the fact that it’s going to sell for two hundred dollars a bottle because it is, and that’s insane. The 2017 Sam Adams Utopias was aged in ‘hand-selected, single-use bourbon casks from the award-winning Buffalo Trace Distillery’. This injects a wide array of flavors into the rare barleywine including traces of ‘Bourbon, White Carcavelos, and Ruby Port’.

The very first of these bottles will go to the Sam Adams employees. So, if you know anyone working for Samuel Adams you’ll want to hit them up first before trying to track down this rare beer at a bar or in a store.

According to Golf Digest, that incredibly high ABV makes it illegal in the following states: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, and Washington.

The 2017 Utopias is brewed using three types of German Noble hops (Spalt Spalter, Hallertau Mittelfrueh, Tettnang Tettnanger). Samuel Adams brewers used a secret blend of two-row pale malt and combined that with two additional malts (Munich and Caramel 60). This all combines for a rich and complex flavor that Sam Adams drinkers are almost certainly going to love.

You can read up more on the 2017 Samuel Adams Utopias HERE on their website, or over here on Golf Digest.

Why do people still go out to the movies? It’s expensive, sitting with strangers sucks and leaving the house is the worst. The only reason to still go to a movie theater is for the new releases but other than that the entire experience is one big popcorn tub of suck.

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We’ve all been there. A late night of partying led to one thing or another. Next thing we knew the sun was up and it was time to go home. Only, my pants are nowhere to be found, I have no idea whose bedroom I’m in, and I really hope that smell is someone cooking Chinese Scallion Pancakes for breakfast and not something I did last night. Below, a bunch of people shared stories of their funniest, most outrageous walks of shame. These are nothing short of spectacular. If you’d like to share your own story, by all means, pop into the comments down below, but not until you read through these (via AskReddit):

Belmer321:
In college, woke up the next day after a party across campus. Walked back to my house. Voting was a thing that day, lots of students out encouraging to vote. I walked into a campus building, interacted with lots of people, voted and left.
Got home to realize a big dI*ck drawn in sharpie on my forehead.
Was wondering why people were looking at me funny.

Makelevi:
After a night of drinking at the bar, one of my friends decided that she was gonna make everyone perogies. I was upstairs and had no idea she was cooking until I heard a scream. I ran downstairs and there she was, with a wok on the stove and flames rising from it steadily, licking the ceiling. I yelled for another buddy to open the Juliette balcony we had next to the kitchen. I grabbed the flaming oily mess by the panhandle, trying not to spill the flaming oils as I carried it to the balcony and tossed that fucker right out onto the paved alleyway below. I burnt my hand doing so. A few burn marks were formed around our kitchen. Our house had come very close to being a fire scene because of drunken perogies.
Anyway the next morning she went out and collected this misshapen, now-destroyed wok from the alleyway. I always refer to this as her wok of shame.

batteries69:
Today, I walked through my college campus wearing nothing but overalls cut off mid shin and a Mario hat in the rain.
I went out to a Halloween party as Mario, ended up at a friends house throwing up in his sink. Woke up with no idea where the rest of my clothes went but knew I had to get to my dorm, a mile away, to get dressed for class. Unfortunately, I made this walk in between classes so plenty of students saw a defeated mario.

pinebone:
Made great friends with a dude at this party the night before, we both separately take home girls on opposite sides of our college campus. Morning after I’m walking home about 8am and cross paths with my new best bud so I ask “walk of shame?” To which he responds: “it’s not a walk of shame if they were a 10/10, it’s a walk of glory”. Been using that term since.

choadspanker:
This happened pre-walk of shame
So one time my friend John and I drove a couple hours to Boston for an old friends birthday party that we hadn’t seen in awhile. It starts as a house party and after that sort of dies down we decided to go hit some bars. I hit it off with a girl, so we broke off from the group and stayed the night at her place. Next morning I wake up, get dressed, and head out into the kitchen. I almost shit a fuckin brick because who is sitting at the table? Fuckin John. We, completely unknown to each other, went home with girls who happened to be roommates.

theycallmewhywhy:
College. Typical (not frat) house party, gym bros and yoga hoes theme. My friends ripped my shirt off mid party because testosterone and alcohol. Wearing nothing but gym shorts and joggers, somehow managed to still get laid. Wake up next morning and frantically look for clothing, didn’t find my shirt. This is when I remembered some cartoon I saw a while back of a woman getting locked out of her house in underwear. Her friend is jogging by and convinces her to jog along side to avoid embarrassment. I decide that that is a perfect solution and begin jogging back to my apartment on the other side of campus, pretending to be out for my normal morning routine. its maybe -1c out, nipples able to cut diamond, jog past someone in long spandex, sweater, gloves, and ear muffs. Totally worth it TL;DR: a cartoon told me to risked hypothermia so I didn’t have to ask one night stand for clothing

bullhorn_bigass:
During the beginning of my freshman year of college, I was sleeping with a guy for a couple of weeks, let’s call him Matt. We weren’t dating, just hooking up, but both realized that we weren’t really compatible outside of the bed, so we moved on.
During finals week in the second semester, I hooked up with a great guy and was massively hungover, doing the walk of shame across the quad back to my room. It was a sunny, clear May morning. I had cigarettes, and was patting down my pockets looking for a lighter, when I stumbled across Matt, also doing the walk of shame and massively hungover, having a nic fit because he lost his cigarettes the night before when he hooked up with some girl at a party.
He had a lighter, I had cigarettes, we sat down and had a smoke, then completed the walk of shame back to our dorm, telling each other to have a good summer when he got off the elevator on his floor. What a carefree time of life my first year of college was.

gregdoom:
A couple Halloweens ago, I went out with a lovely lady to a party. I went as Agent Venom from Spider-Man. We hooked up and she let me crash at her place, which actually was not supposed to happen, so morning rolls around and I realize that I have no change of clothes. Fuck. So, I basically say “screw it” put my costume back on (sans the mask) and walk to my car. On the way to my car, I see a dude around my age in a Spider-Man outfit walking towards me. He starts to say something and I just say “can it, Parker! I’m busy!” and we laughed, but I kept walking to my car. Got in, and drove home. The end.

khitchwitz:
Met a girl on Halloween and her group of friends, she invited me back, we had like five more drinks and she was too drunk to function. Took her home, took care of her while she puked, and we woke up together and cuddled. She thanked me and invited me to stay the day with her. I did, and stayed the night again, and then on November 2nd I had to walk home as a Ninja Turtle through the financial district of our city

throwawaymcgrowaway:
In middle school I had khaki pants on. Thought I had to fart, but it was actually the beginnings of liquid diarrhea and it happened while walking between classes. I went in the bathroom and tried to clean up in the stall, but it was already too late – the shit had seeped through my undies and all on the back of my khakis.
Walked straight out of the bathroom (mid-period, so no one saw), out the door and walked home without telling a soul. I lived about 3/4 of a mile away from school and had to walk a main street to get home. Most shameful walk of my life. Can only imagine how many people drove by and saw me walking with my shit-stained pants along the main street.

Eslov:
I was at a party where everyone dressed up as old people. I had a white wig and everything. At one point I traded my pants for bathrobe because why not.
At the after-party, someone had popped a big moving-box worth of popcorn. I’m never sensible enough to stop partying I was the last one to go to bed at that party I slept in the box of popcorn.
It looked a little weird the next day on the bus ride home when a guy without pants dressed as an old man with popcorn everywhere was trying to survive a hangover.
I think it looked like I was a confused old man that had escaped from the old folks home.

fauxxfoxx:
Well, there was that one time I dressed as Catwoman for Halloween, which was a Friday, slept at a friend’s, then had to walk of shame back to my dorm on a football Saturday. I went to a Big 10 school, so there were a LOT of people out and about.

slapzgiving:
In college I went to a Halloween party dressed as one of the Zoltan guys from ‘Dude Where’s my Car?’ (basically shorts, wife beater and a bubble wrap jumpsuit). I ended up hooking up with a girl a couple blocks from my house. Now, in order to get said hookup done we had to destroy the bubble wrap suit =(…I know. She also happened to be a terrible scratcher. So the next afternoon I’m walking down the main drag toward my house near campus in shorts, a wife beater LITRALLY covered in blood down the back, and carrying about 3 pounds of bubble wrap in 30 degree weather. I ended up getting a couple round of applauses from neighboring houses accompanied by some beers!

missmarcelwave:
One of my uncles is a balding pediatric nurse with a habit of falling asleep when drunk. My other uncle has a habit of playing pranks when drunk. Other uncle drew dick sharpies on the back of passed-out bald uncle’s head last Christmas. Bald uncle went to work like that on Boxing Day. 9 hours of his shift had passed before anyone alerted him.

kalcif:
Hooked up with this guy. Realllyyy wanted to leave, but didn’t have my car with me and it was 5am, so I laid there. He woke up and went to the bathroom, and for some reason I thought this was my chance to leave. So, I decided to climb down from his balcony and walk 2 hours home with my dress on, and bra and underwear in my hands… And I was barefoot… Because I forgot my fucking shoes. Many crackheads were alllll about me during that long walk.

Emily_Starke:
Getting the bus back home on a Sunday morning wearing a tiny skirt and a corset top, having lost my nice large coat sometime during the evening. Girl I’d hooked up with didn’t even offer me a jumper to wear. And obviously the bus was full of judgey old people

Booblubeloo:
Sitting on the curb looking a hot mess waiting for my uber when the guy I just hooked up with strolled by with his friend to go play an early game of tennis

bbqkettlechip:
Woke up in dude’s apartment realized I was 1 hour late for my campus gyno appointment. I walked to the campus clinic and went to appointment in last night’s clothes. Nurse gave me a year’s worth of birth control in a bag and said, “you need this.”
Said, “thanks,” and then I walked back to my apartment with my loot.

onefortysevenone:
Our school was notorious for seagulls.
Thousands of kids littering all day must’ve seemed like paradise for them. They pretty much took over the entire school.
Somebody being shit on by a seagull was an everyday occurrence, in the end people were just so used to it that people didn’t really bat an eyelid, unless it was comical in some way.
I was walking to lesson with my buddy. I felt something hit my back, it felt like a friend had come up and slapped me on the back to say hi or whatever. I turned around and there’s nobody there, I turn to my buddy and his face is in shock. He’s pointing at my back and I can see him charging up to let out an almighty laugh.
I take my jacket off and see what’s up. At this point my friend can barely breathe, he’s causing a huge scene, everybody is fucking looking over or crowding round to see what’s up.
This bird shit on my back was this size of a fucking dinner plate, to this day I’m still convinced that it must of been an eagle or an albatross or something that did this to me.
I had to walk to my next lesson with my jacket at arms length, with people following me and laughing their head off.
Fuck that bird.

Last, but not least…

3loodwolf117:
Strap in, friends. This night helped shape who I am.
Sophomore year of college at a big state school in the American Midwest. Fraternity toga party.
I should preface this by saying I had nothing under my toga besides a pair of boxers. I gave my wallet and my phone to a friend (who smartly wore shorts under his toga).
I don’t remember much of the party. I pregamed with 10+ natty lights through playing Irish poker. The last thing I remember is being handed a four loko and being told to shotgun it as soon as I walked up to the party. Shot gunning that four loko was easily one of the most disturbing moments of my life. If you’ve ever had a four loko, you know what I mean.
Fast forward to about 3:30am. I wake up on the floor of a dorm room (!!!). Not only was I naked, but I was still extremely hammered. I got up and saw a girl passed out on the twin-sized bed (fuck). But that explains why I was on the floor; a twin is way too small for two people.
But that doesn’t matter. After standing up I go in full panic mode. Where the hell was i? What happened? Who is this girl?? I never do anything like this, at that point I had only ever had sex with two people in my life. I assumed that we hooked up, but who knows? I had never done anything like this. I was shook as hell.
I start to rummage for my toga (a dirty bedsheet), my underwear, and my shoes. I mentally slap myself for not having a phone or wallet. After I found all of my things scattered on the floor around me, I start the process of figuring out where the hell I am. Can’t just open up my phone and look at the gps, no sir. That would have been too smart.
Quietly walk out of her door. To my left, a long hallway, lined with more dorm rooms, that veers off to god knows where. To my right, the door to a stairwell. Thank Christ.
Oh, I should also mention that at the beginning of the night, my friend wrapped my toga for me. I had no idea how to wrap a toga. So I’m essentially holding it around my waist like a bath towel.
In the stairwell, I found out I’m on the seventh floor. I descend seven flights of stairs. At one point I walk past a group of 3-4 drunk girls heading up. Hey, ladies. I’m doing great, how are you?
At the bottom there’s a door that leads outside. I walk outside the door and realize I’m at a dorm on the southeast side of campus. I live in the northwest. I’m 2 and a half miles from home. With no phone or wallet (fuck!!!).
Then begins the longest walk of shame I have ever had. A dirty bed sheet wrapped around my waist, at around four o clock in the morning, in January in the Midwest (it gets pretty damn cold). I did a lot of self-reflection on that walk.
Eventually I got home though. Microwaved a frozen burrito and slept like a baby.

Well, bros, that wraps up the coverage from my end but if you want to keep on reading these AskReddit stories you can CLICK HERE to see that thread in full! As always, you can drop your story/ideas/thoughts in the comment section down below.

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As hardcore fans of the delicious McRib will tell you, they wish that McDonald’s would just keep it on the menu year-round.

Heck, there’s even a website called the McRib Locator to help people locate the limited edition sandwich.

Unfortunately, they don’t so everyone has to wait around impatiently for its annual placement back on the menu.

This year the McRib makes its triumphant return today, November 2nd, 2017 in parts of California.

In Hawaii it returns on November 7th…

The McRib Locator has also identified other locations and reports that McDonald’s in South Carolina, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota and Minnesota will be getting it back on the menu in the coming weeks.

So why, despite fans wanting the McRib on the menu year-round, isn’t it? Here are the reasons, according to FoodBeast…

Meat scientist Roger Mandigo, one of the men credited with helping McDonald’s invent their legendary sandwich, told the Lincoln Journal Star that the national supply of those pieces of pork used to make the McRib isn’t too big.

“If you suddenly start to buy a large amount of that material, the price starts to rise,” Mandigo said. Thus, as the price of pork trimmings goes up, McDonald’s eventually takes the pork sandwich off of the menu.

In addition to cost control, McDonald’s only keeps the McRib around for a short while as a way to keep people coming back for it.

Even McDonald’s itself admits to some of this marketing chicanery…

As Inc.’s Nicole Carter puts it, “While McDonald’s playing hard-to-get with the McRib certainly baffles most customers, from a business perspective, it has proven to be a wildly effective marketing strategy. The McRib’s marketing strategy bundles the appeal of exclusivity, scarcity, and seasonality into one savory package.”

Annoying? Yes. Wildly effective? No doubt about it.

Indeed.

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A while back, I was surprised to learn on Bar Rescue that the Margarita is the #1 most sold cocktail in America. I was surprised until I realized that almost everybody loves tequila. Even if someone says they hate tequila they’ll still admit they’d rather take a shot of tequila than gin, right? Right.

Tequila’s led to some of the most memorable nights in my life. From watching the sunrise in Mexico on NYE to watching the sunrise from a rooftop in Manhattan, I’ve lost an inordinate amount of sleep thanks to tequila. As it turns out, tequila isn’t just a party elixir. It actually has some medicinal properties.

I came across this tweet last night from @robfoxthree referencing a FOX 11 article discussing how scientists had determined that tequila can potentially improve bone strength and density. Growing up, I was always told that I needed to drink milk in order to have strong bones. This is some game-changing news because I can’t stand drinking milk alone:

The 2016 study found that substances in the blue Agave tequilano plant, which is used to make tequila, improve the body’s absorption of calcium and magnesium.
As reported by Science Daily, both minerals are essential to maintaining good bone health.
The study, conducted by the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Mexico, found mice that ingested agave fructans produced 50% more osteocalcin, which is a protein that signifies new bone production, than mice that did not.
The leader of the study, Dr. Mercedes López, said “The consumption of fructans contained in the agave, in collaboration with adequate intestinal micriobiota, promotes the formation of new bone, even with the presence of osteoporosis.” (via)

The article goes on to say that a report from Harvard suggests the negative effects of tequila might outweigh the positive effects of bone growth, and more research is needed in order to determine just how beneficial tequila and the blue agave plant is towards bone growth.

I’m sort of the ‘shoot first, ask questions later’ type of guy. So I’m going to just take this news and start ripping more tequila shots on the regular until research comes out that tells me I shouldn’t. Do I actually need stronger bones? Hell no. I’ve only broken one bone in my entire life and it was the tiniest bone in my wrist (intramural soccer at SMU got real). I’m not worried about my bone density. But that doesn’t mean I’m not down to grow some stronger bones.

To read the article in full on FOX 11 you can click here.

The Great Pyramid of Giza was built around 2500 B.C. and despite it being over 4,500 years old, we are getting new discoveries about the ancient world wonder in 2017. Researchers have found a hidden “void” inside the Great Pyramid of Giza that was previously unknown. Japanese and French scientists studied the pyramid for over two years and made the announcement of their intriguing discovery on Thursday in the peer-reviewed British journal Nature.

Scientists utilize cosmic-ray based imaging to find the mystery void in the Pyramid, which is one of the original seven wonders. The puzzling cavity is about 100-feet-long, about 10-feet-tall, and is located above the pyramid’s Grand Gallery. Scientists are unsure if anything valuable is in the void because it is not accessible. “We don’t know whether this big void is horizontal or inclined; we don’t know if this void is made by one structure or several successive structures,” explained Mehdi Tayoubi from the HIP Institute in Paris. This is the first major inner structure found in the Great Pyramid since the 19th century. The Great Pyramid is also known as Khufu’s Pyramid because it was built during the reign of Pharaoh Khufu who ruled Egypt from 2509 to 2483 B.C.

Researchers used an imaging technique called “muography,” which showers an area with high-energy particles called muons that penetrate substances close to the speed of light. They can penetrate deeply into rock and react when they collide with air molecules and show anomalies. The path of the mons can tell scientists where there are stone and air, alerting scientists of cavities in the solid formations. “Cosmic-ray muon radiography allows us to visualize the known and potentially unknown voids in the pyramid in a non-invasive way,” the authors wrote in the study. The ScanPyramids team used three different muography technologies to confirm the void, but did not want to declare the void as a chamber just yet.

The scientists are not sure why there is a void in the 460-foot-tall pyramid, but one could guess is that the hole in the construction was done after a big drinking holiday where workers were too hungover and decided to bypass a few of the more than 2,300,000 limestone and granite blocks that weigh 2.5 tons. The Great Pyramid was built for Pharaoh Khufu, also known as Cheops, and the two nearby pyramids were built for Khufu’s son and grandson. The next possible step could be to drill a 1-inch hole then have a flying robot explore the curious cavity, but that would require the approval from Egyptian authorities.

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The offices of Sports Illustrated across America are probably doing keg stands as I write this, as their outlandish prediction back in 2014 came true. Three and a half years ago, SI editor Ben Reiter boldly predicted the Houston Astros to win the World Series, and plastered the proclamation on the its cover. This was at a time when the Astros were total dogshit. Proof’s in the pudding:

2011: 56-106
2012: 55-107
2013: 51-111
2014: 70-92
…
2017: 101-61

The prophecy becomes more freaky when the player SI used to grace the cover was the team’s future World Series MVP, George Springer. In June 2014, when the issue was released, Springer had made his Major League debut a mere two months prior.

At the time, the Astros were under a new, more savvy management regime and SI’s Ben Reiter took a gamble on the team’s approach to meshing analytics and traditional scouting.

Now, for the first time in the team’s 55-year history, the Astros are World Champions. And that SI cover is fetching a boatload of money on e-Bay.

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Sports Illustrated is riding the wave…

We’ll see how that pays off.

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To say the Cleveland Browns are bad at football would be the ultimate understatement. The most miserable franchise in sports has lost 26 of their last 27 games and became the laughing stock of the league yet again this week after managing to screw up trades involving Jimmy Garopollo and AJ McCarron in an incredibly impressive display of incompetence.

The Browns are currently whatever the opposite of undefeated is and appear to be well on their way to securing the number one pick in next year’s NFL Draft for the second straight year. If history is any indication, they’ll probably draft a quarterback who will fail to live up to expectations, continuing a vicious cycle of terribleness.

By most accounts, Sam Darnold is one of the best quarterbacks in the country and is expected to declare for the draft after the season ends. However, NFL Network’s Albert Breer reports Darnold might remain at USC if the Browns do end up with the top pick in order to avoid falling victim to the curse of the quarterback position.

Of course, there’s a good chance the Browns continue to be the laughing stock of the league over the next couple of years, which means Darnold could still find himself in a living nightmare if he continues to perform as well as he has. I wish him the best of luck in avoiding a fate no one deserves.

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As if we “need” a reason to drink *pffft* some folks still thought it would be interesting to do a study to figure out what America’s favorite reasons to drink actually are. Turns out they were right.

In an effort to see which occasions warrant the most cocktails, the team over at Alcohol.org asked over 1,000 Americans about their alcohol consumption during a variety of events.

Some highlights:

— The #1 occasion Americans choose to celebrate with alcohol: Their own birthday.
— 63% of Americans consider family time more enjoyable if drinks are often or always involved.
— Two drinks (at least) is what people say it takes to get through an office party.
— Party on: You’re expected to have five drinks minimum at a bachelor(ette) outing.

Why do so many of these sound familiar?

Here’s what else they discovered…

As far as events go, bachelor or bachelorette parties ranked the highest with an average of 5.1 drinks consumed per person. Wedding receptions were slightly lower with the average number of drinks consumed dropping to 3.8.

At every event analyzed, beer drinkers consumed the most, while wine drinkers consumed the smallest average number of drinks across all events.

Via Alcohol.org

They also studied our drinking habits as they relate to family because, duh!

About half of respondents said consuming alcohol during family gatherings made their family more tolerable. That percentage grew to a whopping 63 percent when looking at a family that often or always drank together.

Fulfilling the stereotype, uncles were the family members most respondents labeled as heavy drinkers. Since men typically drink more than women, and people also drink more with age, the combination of the two may be why there really is such a thing as the real-life drunk uncle.

Via Alcohol.org

Here’s a shocker: people like to drink then they are celebrating something. I know, right? Who would have thunk it? But which occasions lead to the most drinking?

83 percent agreed their birthday was the right time to tip one back. A friend’s engagement was next on the list, beating out a respondent’s own wedding anniversary by one percentage point.

67 percent of men believed the start of the weekend was an appropriate reason to drink compared to 64 percent of women.

Via Alcohol.org

As you can clearly see, alcohol most certainly has its time and place in relation to several occasions in our lives, however, if you struggle with an alcohol use disorder please do visit Alcohol.org to learn more about prevention, treatment, and recovery.

The idea behind Everyday Carry is pocket-sized items you’ll use over and over again. The difference between the regular items featured and today’s item is these products take “pocket-sized” to a new (smaller) level.

From a keychain flask to a pocket blanket, these EDC are compact but mighty. They’re also mighty inexpensive.

Spyderco Delica 4 Flat Ground Plain Edge Knife [$62]
ZeroUV Folding Pocket Aviator Sunglasses [$12]
Matador Mini Pocket Blanket For Hiking & Camping [$19.99]
Olight EDC Compact Keychain Flashlight [$9.99]
Maxam Stainless Steel Key Chain Flask [$19.99]

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The worst part of flying isn’t the shitty food or stale air or getting stuck in a middle seat next to two heffers. The worst part of flying occurs well before your get off the ground. That moment right when you step on the plane and you look the first-class passengers in the eyes before walking below deck of the Titanic. They’re usually smug businessmen with their free alcohol and endless legroom, glued to their phone trying to link up with a prostitute upon landing. So humiliating, so aggravating.

Well, Singapore Airlines just made the accommodations of those first-class passengers look like peasant quarters.  The airline is unveiling legitimate suites in their new Airbus A380 double-decker planes to replace its first-class seating.

According to Uproxx, the suites can be a single space with a twin bed, swivel chair, desk, and TV, or a queen sized bed with identical amenities.

Singapore Airlines

Singapore Airlines

Singapore Airlines

But that’s not all–that shitty airplane food is just the opposite for these passengers. The menu was created by a team of chefs that source food locally according to where you’re flying from.

Start collecting those miles, fellas. The Mile High Club doesn’t just need to be a fantasy.

[h/t Uproxx]

It’s time for us to all check out the newest funny memes and photos on the Internet. The BroBible ‘Best Damn Photos’ is a twice daily pic dump. It brings together the funniest photos and memes from all across the Internet. You can check out previous editions of the morning and afternoon Best Damn Photos pic dump by following that link, but don’t go anywhere without viewing today’s best funny photos! Make sure to follow us on Instagram at @brobible for more funny pics. And to see your pictures featured here on BroBible, consider sending them to me on Twitter HERE, and if the pics are good I’ll include them. IF YOU WANT YOUR INSTAGRAM PICS/MEMES TO BE FEATURED HERE tag them with ‘BROBIBLE’ and I’ll include them if they’re good.

IF YOU WANT YOUR INSTAGRAM PICS/MEMES TO BE FEATURED HERE tag them with ‘BROBIBLE’ and I’ll include them if they’re good. Today’s photos came from all over on Instagram. If you have a photo you’d like to see featured here you can send it to me on Twitter at @casspa or you can email it to me at cass@brobibledotcom. You might notice that this is a different format than the usual ‘Best Damn Photos’ of the morning and afternoon. Going forward, by using Instagram and Twitter embeds it will save me hours of work in putting this twice daily pic dump together and I’ll be able to get the pics to you bros a lot faster. Nobody likes change. I’m sure this new format will come with its own hiccups. But we’ll all grow to love it over time.

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In my experience, Student vs. Staff basketball games are an entertaining but largely uneventful affair (but a great excuse to get out of class for an hour). Most players don’t take them too seriously, but some people step up their game when pride is on the line.

One student learned this the hard way when he found himself on the receiving end of an incredibly impressive alley-oop off the backboard that gives a whole new meaning to getting an education.

Here’s to hoping that kid’s ego isn’t permanently bruised.

If you’ve seen the movie Creed or any of the the Black Panther trailers you know Michael B. Jordan is in ridiculous shape.

Of course with roles like those, dude HAS to be in ridiculous shape just to perform the way he does in movies that are so physically demanding.

In a new short film entitled Grounded, that Jordan shot in collaboration with Vice and Nike, he discusses the type of work ethic that goes into making him the man that he is and shows off some of the intense training he undertakes to stay in such amazing shape.

Back in May, Jordan also shared the workout routine he used to get ripped for Creed with Men’s Fitness.

Jordan’s trainer, Corey Calliet, needed to build both the actor’s muscles and his work capacity so that he not only looked like a boxer of championship lineage but moved like one, too. “The training was pulled from the fundamentals of athletic conditioning, as well as from bodybuilding,” says Calliet. The sessions combine cardio and circuit training to melt fat off the abs while tightening them, and each muscle group is trained with volume for a maximum pump.

Among the exercises Calliet prescribes for Jordan are dumbbell kickbacks, pushup, bench dips, sprinter situps, triceps pushdowns, dumbbell rows, hammer curls, barbell curls and much, much more.

Here’s a look at just Day One of Jordan’s four-day training regimen…

1. Incline Dumbbell Press
Sets: 3 Reps: 12

2. Dumbbell Flye
Sets: 3 Reps: 12

3. Pushups
Sets: 10 Reps: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

4. Dumbbell Kickback
Sets: 3 Reps: 15

5. Triceps Pushdown
Sets: 2 Reps: 20

6. Bench Dip
Sets: 10 Reps: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

And that’s just the beginning.

For the rest of Jordan’s workout plan as well as the How-To’s for each exercise, head on over to Men’s Fitness.

Want to see how even more celebrities train? Take a look at some of these workouts…

Elsa Pataky, Cody Bellinger, Stephen Amell, Chris Jericho, Mark Wahlberg, Cristiano Ronaldo, Henry Cavill, Ryan Reynolds, Brad Pitt, Chris Hemsworth, Lindsey Vonn, Alison Brie, Gal Gadot, The Rock, Jason Statham, Sylvester Stallone.

The DreamScreen HD Backlight is something I’ve only ever seen in TV/movies, and pictures of rich people’s houses, and I never really took notice of it until now. This is an HD backlight that sends your TV/home theater to the next level by adding some mesmerizing light.

Your TV is sad. It’s sad because there’s a technology out there that can enlarge the screen, soften the picture, and make content more immersive than ever. That technology is DreamScreen. DreamScreen’s effect is incredible, placing LEDs behind your TV that react with the color pixels of what you’re watching at a responsive rate of 60 frames per second, making your favorite shows, movies, and games bigger, brighter, and easier on your eyes. Buy Now: $124.99

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It was an eye-opening moment when Bitcoin set a new record by surpassing $4,000 for the first time in August. Now, only even three months later, Bitcoin has shot past $7,000 per coin. On Thursday morning, Bitcoin reached a new all-time high of $7,355.35 and is currently hovering around $7,000 at time of publication according to CoinDesk’s Bitcoin Price Index.

Via CoinDesk

After posting record highs on consecutive days, Bitcoin is up over 20% percent for the last 7 days, and its market capitalization is over $116 billion. For the year, Bitcoin has been on a miraculous ride, increasing over 600% against the dollar in 2017. But what happened after defied most predictions.But it’s not just Bitcoin enjoying bewildering success, the value of all cryptocurrencies is now at a record high of more than $190 billion.

Meanwhile, not everyone is so ready to embrace cryptocurrencies. Credit Suisse CEO Tidjane Thiam weighed in on cryptocurrencies and he had a very negative outlook on the digital money because of its ties to illegal activities. “I think most banks in the current state of regulation have little or no appetite to get involved in a currency which has such anti-money laundering challenges,” Tidjane Thiam said at a news conference. The high-ranking banking exec added that the volatile currency is “the very definition of speculation and the very definition of a bubble.” Thiam said that investors were only buying cryptocurrencies “to make money.”

Another banking executive warned of the dangers of cryptocurrencies. Koos Timmermans, the chief financial officer of ING, said on Thursday, “Well, we are quite careful on this part, so if you ask, ‘Are we advising our clients to invest in this?’ the answer is no.” Don’t tell that to the Wu-Tang Clan’s Ghostface Killah who co-founded a cryptocurrency.

Value Of The World’s Third Biggest Cryptocurrency Soared 3,977% In First Half Of 2017

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Cuban Foresees Upcoming Boom, Compares Opportunity to Dotcom Era

Dallas Mavericks Owner and Shark Tank investor Mark Cuban, foresees an upcoming boom; with investment opportunities unlike anything we’ve seen since the rise of the dotcom era, in the late 1990s. Cuban is qualified to speak on the subject, having sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo! (AABA), at the peak of the dotcom bubble, for $5.7 billion (in stock). In an a short interview with Brandon “Scoop B” Robinson, on Scoop B Radio, Cuban pointed to several fields that could experience similar growth over the next few years including; “deep learning, machine learning, machine vision, bio analytics and biomechanics.” As for his thoughts on virtual reality, “I don’t think that’s going to be quite as successful as people think”.

Howie Long-Short: Cuban mentions several technological advances that may not be in everyone’s vernacular, so I’m going to try and explain them. Machine learning is the practice of using algorithms to parse data, learn from it and then make determinations based on the large amount of data the machine was trained on. Deep learning is a technique for implementing machine learning, that relies on artificial neural networks (like a brain), where large amounts of data are run through the system to train it. Machine vision refers to a computer’s ability to see (think OCR). Bio analytics relates to the measurement of substances within a biological system, while biomechanics focuses on the movement or structure of living organisms.

Fan Marino: While Cuban may not be particularly bullish on VR from an investment standpoint, the technology appears useful within the sports world. Set to launch in 2018, RBI-VR (from Monsterful VR) will be used by MLB players to enhance pitch recognition and timing, while minimizing the risk of injury. RBI-VR compiles and calculates data to recreate the throwing mechanics, biomechanics, vertical and horizontal release point of any pitcher in the league with near 100% accuracy. Considered by the MLB Player’s Association to be “best-in market”, the technology has been built with input from an advisory board that includes Lloyd McClendon, Dusty Baker, Gene Orza, Don Mattingly and Edgar Martinez.

EA Sports Reports “Strong Quarter”, Kicks Off Qualifying for FIFA eWorld Cup 2018

Qualifying tournaments for EA Sports’ (EA) FIFA eWorld Cup 2018 are underway and will run through July ’18, narrowing the field down to 128 participants (64 PS4 (SNE), 64 Xbox One (MSFT)) who will compete in the FIFA ’18 Global Series Playoffs. The tournament will include both players signed to professional teams as well as amateur tournament winners. Those who advance will play in in the FIFA eWorld Cup Grand Final, with the winner of each playoff (PS4, Xbox One) receiving a $35,000 prize.

Howie Long-Short: EA Sports announced fiscal Q2 revenues rose 7.4% YOY on an adjusted basis (to $1.18 billion), reducing the company’s net loss to $22 million (from $38 million in ’16). CEO Andrew Wilson called it a “strong quarter”, writing that “the company benefited from the customer’s response to EA Sports games (Madden NFL, FIFA), and its mobile games”. CFO Blake Jorgensen said that the company had experienced notable growth in its high-margin digital business (+21.7% to $689 million) during the quarter. As of the close on Wednesday, the stock is up more than 45% on the year.

Fan Marino: More of an NBA 2K gamer than a FIFA one? 2K Sports has announced that the latest release of NBA 2K18 features verified users. That means gamers will know if they’re playing against NBA players, celebrities or members of the 2K development team. Fans are going to flip when they realize they’re playing as LeBron, against LeBron.

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WWE Experiences “All-Time Best Quarter”

Stephanie McMahon called Q3 ’17, the WWE’s “all-time best quarter”, as the company grew revenue 14% to $186.4 million, set a company quarterly record for Adjusted OIBDA ($40.4 million) and saw net income rise to $21.8 million (from $11.1 million YOY). The growth is being attributed to an increase in TV rights fees, a rise in WWE network subscriptions (4.4% to 1.52 million subscribers) and the proliferation of live events. As a result, WWE Chief Strategy and Financial Officer George Barrios said the company has increased 2017 guidance; calling for “record revenue, record Adjusted OIBDA results and record subscriber levels.”

Howie Long-Short: 2018 projects to be a banner year for the WWE, with the company anticipating setting another record for revenue generation and targeting Adjusted OIBDA of at least $115 million; which would also set a record. Those records may not last long, though. The company’s television broadcast deal with NBC expires September 30, 2019 and broadcast deals in U.K. and India (2^nd and 3^rd largest broadcast deals revenue-wise) expire on December 31, 2019. I expect the total value of broadcast rights to increase and for 2020 to be another record setting year for the WWE.

Fan Marino: While the financial picture is pretty, there is speculation that the WWE could be facing a mass-exodus of talent (despite Lesnar staying and Rousey joining); with wrestlers who feel underutilized or underpaid, looking to leave the company. While once the only game in town, Ring of Honor, New Japan Pro-Wrestling and a booming independent circuit now provide viable alternatives. The success Cody Rhodes, Ryback and Alberto Del Rio have found outside the organization has forced guys (and girls) to evaluate their options; and apparently, at least for some, those options more lucrative on the other side.

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